Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire on 27 December 1985 at 14:54 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 14:54 on Friday 27 December 1985. A 64-year-old female passenger was slightly injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1985; Friday, 14:54
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1985125378625
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
69 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear seat passenger

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1985125378625 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Yorkshire road accident statistics for 1985.